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A flock of old battery hens have been retired to a sanctuary farm on the mountains inland from Queensland's Gold Coast. But their abused bodies are no longer producing enough feathers to keep them warm in winter. A group of volunteers have started knitting and sewing coats and jackets to protect the ...

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Publish or perish a scientific career is based on getting published in peer reviewed academic journals. But this pressure increases the risk for scientists to employ flexible analytic and selective reporting practices. The Open Science movement calls for transparency of not just research ...

Why do we see the past through rose-coloured glasses, but not the future? Psychologists tell us that human beings have a tendency to be fearful and pessimistic about the future, while simultaneously romanticising the past. If the theory is true, it might help explain the difficulties we often ...

Dont skimp on your eight hours of sleep each day! They are more important than you think. Sleep has a direct impact on social behaviour, mental health and obesity. Sleep can heal. In fact, you die if you dont sleep quicker than you starve to death. What happens in your body when you sleep? The science of ...

New research shows that Homo Sapiens is a domesticated form of our species. And thats the result of the invention of capital punishment. But how could our low aggressiveness evolve from repeated acts of violence? Virtue and violence in human evolution presented by the Royal Institution. January ...

Love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. Animals can feel and express these emotions just like us. Zebrafish can get depressed and respond to the same antidepressant drugs humans do. The idea that animals share the same emotions as humans was a taboo in scientific research for a ...